Black Gold is good for a few shows and then falls into a dangerous trap. How many times can we watch an oil driller put another piece of pipe together to drill the hole to get to the oil before we get bored?

Its all dramatized, the one that made this show also makes Ice Road Truckers. The Big Dog Rig on the show is a staged rigged NW of Odessa, been on a couple of their other rigs, the men on them have nothing good to say about the "TV Stars" they put on that rig.

The safety on them is far and above what is required, they just make it look like fools working on them.

The first season they used some roughnecks from the fields ... after that they had ones that couldn't make it and used them on the rig ... around here most of the company men are cool, but they aren't going to let cameras on the rigs like that.

Most of the rigs in my area call them "scabs" ... they don't have much good to say about them.